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Subject: WAGERING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1940 LASALLE, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did I or didn't I write about lucky burkin?
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Gambling; Death; Wagering; Betting; Dead, The


A FOOL THERE WAS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A fool there was, and he made his prayer,
Last Line: (even as you and I!)
Subject(s): Baseball; Fools; Gambling; Sports; Idiots; Wagering; Betting


A PROGNOSTICATION UPON CARDS AND DICE, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the sixth day of the next new year
Last Line: Whose very beard is flesh, and mouth is horn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): On The Cards And Dice
Subject(s): Bible; Gambling; Religion; Wagering; Betting; Theology


BAD NEWS (MCSURLEY'S BAR), by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your flame is married I understand'
Last Line: As we shuffled the cards and played the game.
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Card Games; Gambling; Single People; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting; Bachelors; Unmarried People


BLACKJACK SESTINA, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twenty stories high above the desert
Subject(s): Cards Games; Gambling; Wagering; Betting


CASINO, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the hands are living; to the wheel attracted
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Variant Title(s): "only The Hands Are Living; To The Wheel Attracted"";
Subject(s): Gambling; Wagering; Betting


COCKFIGHT IN A LOXAHATCHEE GROVE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trucks backed against the canal
Last Line: And dragging wings, only one crawls back into our shadow.
Subject(s): Chickens; Gambling; Men; Wagering; Betting


DIRGE, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: 1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1;
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man; Dead, The; Dead, The; Recessions; Wagering; Betting


DOWN ON THE DEAD END, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've toiled at the end of creation, stripped to the trousers and shirt
Last Line: And perhaps in the ultimate scramble I'll corner a shakedown above.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Gambling; Dead, The; Wagering; Betting


EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A veteran gambler, in a tempest caught
Subject(s): Gambling; Time; Wagering; Betting


GAMBLING, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought
Last Line: That smell of marzipan
Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting


GAMBLING, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of every vice pursued by those
Last Line: But sorrow and repentance.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Gambling; Wagering; Betting


HOME YEARNINGS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We're writing to-night to the old, old home
Last Line: And we're wiring for carfare home!
Subject(s): Gambling; Homesickness; Horse Racing; Wagering; Betting


HUGHIE AT THE INN OR, ADVICE FROM A TAPSTER, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it not fine to fling against loaded dice
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gambling; Wagering; Betting


IF YOU PLAY A GAME OF CHANCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you play a game of chance, know before you begin
Last Line: If you are benevolent you will never win
Subject(s): Bible; Gambling; Mythology; Wagering; Betting


JANGLING JINGLES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We bet on a champion boxer--
Last Line: And hyrant—oh, he's running yet!
Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Gambling; Horse Racing; Wrestling And Wrestlers; Wagering; Betting


LONGSHOT BLUES, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is all the money is bet on the odd
Subject(s): Gambling; Wagering; Betting


LORD HIPPO, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord hippo suffered fearful loss
Last Line: To say that he backed the winner!
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing; Wagering; Betting


LOVE SONNET OF A TRACK FIEND, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Baby, I know you think that I
Last Line: I'll make the rest look just like also-rans!
Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing; Track Athletics; Wagering; Betting; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles


PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Which I wish to remark
Last Line: Which the same I am free to maintain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Variant Title(s): The Heathen Chinee;plain Talk From Truthful James
Subject(s): Asian Americans - Chinese; Gambling; Chinese In The United States; Wagering; Betting


POKER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "to draw, or not to draw, that is the question"
Last Line: And lose the right to open
Subject(s): Gambling;games; Wagering;betting;recreation;pastimes;amusements


SONG FOR THE SQUEEZE BOX, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Gambling; Money; Loss; Unemployment; Wine; Wagering; Betting


TEN MILLS: IN DIVES' DIVE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late at night and still I am losing
Last Line: Let's have a look at another five
Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting


THE CASE OF ALBERT IRVING WILLIAMSON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, albert irving williamson was innocent / and young
Last Line: Our hero did not win a single solitary pot.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Fools; Gambling; Innocence; Youth; Idiots; Wagering; Betting


THE GAMESTER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said a lady to a gambler, 'such ill-luck attends your dice
Last Line: "incorrigible gamester! You a ruin'd man will be."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Gambling; Love; Wagering; Betting


THE GRAY INN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And at the last he came to a gray inn
Last Line: He knew his hand would do an evil thing.
Subject(s): Dreams; Gambling; Greed; Nightmares; Wagering; Betting; Avarice; Cupidity


THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: OCTOBER. GAMBLING AT MONACO, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A jewelled kingdom set impregnable
Subject(s): Monaco; Gambling; Wagering; Betting


THE PIKER'S RUBAIYAT, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The piker's rubaiyat
Last Line: Who never won a single bet. Alas!
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Gambling; Wagering; Betting


THE TIP, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The eager tout, while prowling for the news
Last Line: That wretched animal is running yet!
Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing; Wagering; Betting


THE TOUT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are a hundred ways in which he strives to
Last Line: And you can trust him—sure you can—just one time out of fifty!
Subject(s): Duplicity; Gambling; Horse Racing; Deceit; Wagering; Betting


THE WAGER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five years ago in this same garden space
Last Line: Claire. Why not a woman's love?
Subject(s): Gambling; Kisses; Love - Complaints; Love - Nature Of; Wagering; Betting


VERSES LOST UPON A WAGER, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As soon hereafter will I wagers lay
Last Line: Till she has paid her customs first to thee.
Subject(s): Gambling; Wagering; Betting